Here is the conclusion of Jennifer Rubin’s Washington Post column. To see how she connected Allan Bloom’s blockbuster 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind to the Supreme Court arguments over Obamacare, you have to read the entire column.
In short, what Bloom spotted more than two decades ago and what NAS documents today is the unilateral intellectual disarmament of liberal elites. Twenty-five years ago they were scrambling to figure out who were the giants of Western civilization that Bloom was discussing; Today they can’t comprehend why their ”historic” legislation [Obamacare] is being tested against strict rule of Constitution propriety. It is as if they are listening to a foreign language. And indeed they are.
All of this should give the left pause. Have they become intellectual couch potatoes while conservatives have been training for a marathon? It sure seems that way.
